Ameya Patil
Portrait of Ameya Patil
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I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science advised by Dr. Leilani Battle, and member of the Interactive Data Lab and the UWDB Group at the University of Washington, Seattle. My research lies in the intersection of Databases, Data Visualization and Human Computer Interaction, with a focus on building data analysis systems for environmental science contexts. I am also interested in visualization perception research.

Outside of my academic life, I pursue digital photography as a hobby. Browse my photography profile here and on Instagram @ameyabp. I am crazy about the game of cricket, love adventure activities and travelling, often writing down my experiences via blogs.

News

  • April 2023 - Presented my work - "WhaleVis: A New Visualization Tool for the IWC Catch Database" at the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committeee meeting
  • October 2022 - Presented my paper - "Studying Early Decision Making with Progressive Bar Charts" at IEEE VIS 2022 - link
  • July 2022 - Paper accepted at IEEE VIS 2022
  • September 2021 - Transferred to University of Washington, Seattle with Dr. Leilani Battle
  • June 2021 to September 2021 - Research Intern at INRIA Saclay, France with Dr. Jean-Daniel Fekete
  • January 2021 - Started PhD in Computer Science at University of Maryland, College Park with Dr. Leilani Battle
  • December 2020 - Graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park

Publications

  • WhaleVis: A New Visualization Tool for the IWC Catch Database
    International Whaling Commission, SC/69A/GDR/04, 2023
    A. Patil, Z. Rand, T. Branch, L. Battle
    PDF | DOI | video
  • Studying Early Decision Making with Progressive Bar Charts
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023
    A. Patil, G. Richer, C. Jermaine, D. Moritz, J.-D. Fekete
    PDF | Data | DOI | Teaser video | Live presentation
  • Compressing GANs using Knowledge Distillation
    CoRR, vol. abs/1902.00159, 2019.
    A. Aguinaldo, P.-Y. Chiang, A. Gain, A. Patil, K. Pearson and S. Feizi
    PDF

Selected Projects

Natural Calamities Visualization Tool
Basic interface of the natural calamities visualization tool
Course Project for Interactive Data Analytics - CMSC828D

Implemented a geo data analysis/visualization tool with interactions to understand the natural calamities that happened in the US over 20 years from 1950 to 2022. Front end was designed using d3, server was setup using python Flask and Postgres was used for backend.

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Physically Based Clustering Visualization
Basic interface of the physically based word vector encoding visualization tool
Course Project for Physically Based Modelling, Simulation and Animation - CMSC828X

Implemented a data analysis/visualization tool with interactions modelled on real-life physical forces using the D3-Force API. The specific use case targeted was evaluating word embeddings created by different methods, where words closer in the vector space belonged to the same cluster.

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Adding shadows to a scene using CNN
Input to the model - scene without shadows; light source map; object depth map from 8 orthographic views; ground truth image
Sample ground truth
Corresponding sample model output
Sample ground truth
Corresponding sample model output
Course Project for Advanced Computer Graphics - CMSC740

Trained a cGAN (Conditional Generative Adversarial Network) model to generate shadows in a scene, given the scene without shadows, the depth map and the lightsource position map. Used the pix2pixmodel for the task.

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"Lumos" - Board and Video Game
Lumos Board Game
Lumos Video Game
Course Project for Game Design - INST728E

Designed a board game and a video game based on the theme of propagating light in a 2D space. Click below for more details about the games.

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Virtual Music Instrument Dashboard
Course Project for Creative Multimedia - BITSF398

Created a gesture based virtual music instrument dashboard using LEAP Motion. Implemented string instruments like piano and harp, and percussion instrument like drums. Implementation done using Java Swing and LEAP Motion SDK

Blogs

Photography

Coming Soon

Contact

E-mail: ameyap2[at]cs<dot>washington[dawt]edu

Linkedin: linkedin.com/ameya-patil

Location: CSE291, Paul G. Allen Center, 185 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195-2350